Quick Arch-Viz grass technique (for still images)

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Hi,

Just thought I’d pass this on. I just watched a really nice technique for grass using Vray displace, thanks to a quick tip by the people at Evermotion https://vimeo.com/76032057 and I thought it deserved to be repeated here for Blender users:)

The results are pretty nice (for medium distance - non-animated shots), I think, and it renders very quickly. This rendered in about 1 minute.

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(the trees and shrubbery are image planes just for size reference and shadows)

Basically it takes just a few steps:

1 - create a plane, subdivide a few times, and displace with the “displace modifier” using a cloud texture (use a large size for smoother bumps.

2 - Add a multires modifier and add about 4 subdivided levels.

3 - Add another displace modifier using a noise texture at a very subtle level, and small noise size.

4 - Make sure your grass plane is unwrapped and then add a grass image texture to it… done!

This rendered in about 1 minute.

Here’s the blend if anyone is interested in taking a look.

http://www.pasteall.org/blend/24422

of course the textures can’t be distributed but the slots are available just go choose an hdr to light the scene, get a grass texture from cgtextures.com, and if you want download a tree image with alpha here:http://www.immediateentourage.com/perfectly-cutout-tree/

hope this is useful :

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Thanks for sharing this technique, it looks very useful.

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what’s the polycount?

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the most stupid method for grass i think ever used there is huge diffrance in vray displacment and blender displacment. Just use the hair. or group of bojects it will take just a bit of ram not 10 milion of polygons.

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looks good,color variation of grass is nice.

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this is what ive been searching for for about a month’ i tried to recreate it but with no luck and thr link to the blend file is not working

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This grass could be very useful for basic background plates and such thanks so much for sharing! I’ll be using it.